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Wild Horizons

66,500 subscribers · about 209 months old · ~318 subs/month to date ·publishing in English / Global ·Documentary / History, Explainer / Science, Horror / Thriller

9tracked breakouts
5.5×best breakout score
40.2×best reach, views per subscriber
7.1Mtotal views tracked
9.9×median reach, tracked videos

Breakout videos

  1. 01

    4.5 Billion Years of Earth's History in JUST 1 Hour | Full Documentary

    📖 Documentary / History ·2.7M views · 14.5K/day ·40.2× its audience · 1:12:31 ·2026-03-24 · English / Global

    5.5×
  2. 02

    Not Slaves. Not Aliens. The Real Story of Who Built the Great Pyramid

    📖 Documentary / History ·706.8K views · 7.1K/day ·10.7× its audience · 32:04 ·2026-06-17 · English / Global

    2.0×
  3. 03

    The Entire Dinosaur Extinction Explained (Minute by Minute)

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·657.5K views · 5.5K/day ·9.9× its audience · 34:35 ·2026-05-29 · English / Global

    1.7×
  4. 04

    6 Prehistoric Nightmares That Could Easily Kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex

    🩸 Horror / Thriller ·773.9K views · 4.0K/day ·11.7× its audience · 34:32 ·2026-03-16 · English / Global

    1.6×
  5. 05

    When Giant Bugs Ruled the Earth: The Most Dangerous Era on Earth

    📖 Documentary / History ·777.8K views · 3.9K/day ·11.7× its audience · 33:30 ·2026-03-12 · English / Global

    1.6×
  6. 06

    The ONLY Predator That Made Megalodon Tremble in Fear

    📖 Documentary / History ·524.4K views · 5.6K/day ·7.9× its audience · 32:11 ·2026-06-23 · English / Global

    1.5×
  7. 07

    The Entire Process of Human Evolution Explained in JUST 1 Hour

    🔬 Explainer / Science ·371.5K views · 2.4K/day ·5.6× its audience · 1:10:05 ·2026-04-22 · English / Global

    0.8×
  8. 08

    The 74,000-Year-Old Monster That Killed 99% of Our Ancestors

    📖 Documentary / History ·343.9K views · 1.7K/day ·5.2× its audience · 32:23 ·2026-03-07 · English / Global

    0.7×
  9. 09

    The REAL Reason Pangea Was Earth's Deadliest Era Ever

    📖 Documentary / History ·263.9K views · 1.9K/day ·4.0× its audience · 38:10 ·2026-05-06 · English / Global

    0.6×

How to read this channel

Wild Horizons is a 66,500-subscriber channel (about 209 months old) working mainly in Documentary / History, Explainer / Science, Horror / Thriller, publishing first in English / Global. The radar tracks 9 of its uploads. Its strongest signal (breakout score 5.5× the dataset median) reaches 40.2× the channel's subscriber count and has averaged 14,457 views a day since it was published 185 days ago, on “4.5 Billion Years of Earth's History in JUST 1 Hour | Full Documentary” (2,674,489 views). That is a lifetime average, not a current rate — one capture per video means this dataset cannot distinguish a video that is still climbing from one that already peaked. The API reports the audio track language as en-US.

There is one statistic this page deliberately does not print: a per-channel “share of uploads that reached 3×”. Every video on this site cleared that floor before it could be tracked at all, so the figure would read 100% for every channel and would distinguish nothing. What is left instead: 9 tracked uploads pulling 7,094,087 views between them, the strongest reaching 40.2× its audience. Repeated strong reach across several uploads is the part that suggests a format; one outlier is not. The hook patterns the tracker infers from its titles are statement / cold open (4), number / list hook (2), shock / scale hook (2), and the production choices that repeat are no-face format (no host on camera), single-sitting long-form (30min+), ai historical reenactment (period visuals).

What to copy and what to skip: copy the packaging pattern (title structure, the promise made in the first seconds, the episode length that keeps working) and skip the parts that only this channel can do — an existing subscriber base, cross-posting, or a back catalogue that feeds recommendations. Then compare this channel against the others on its category board: same niche, different market, different length. That comparison is where the transferable part usually hides.

Reproducible playbook

Opening hook (title-derived)

Number / list hook · estimated hook window 28s before the main body.

Beat rhythm (Cold open → context → segmented build → reveal)

  • Hook 0%–3%
  • Setup 3%–15%
  • Act 2 15%–55%
  • Climax 55%–85%
  • Resolution 85%–100%

Production choices that repeat

  • No-face format (no host on camera)
  • AI historical reenactment (period visuals)
  • Single-sitting long-form (30min+)

Derived from the title, duration and market — no frame-level video analysis, and no use of the labels this site writes on an entry.

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Niche board and neighbouring channels

Snapshot rebuilt 2026-09-25 · 2557 signals · 954 channels. Metrics come from the YouTube Data API v3 and are stored captures, not live counters; ages are recalculated from each video's publish date at build time.